Re: Did God choose mathematics?

On Oct 23, 12:55 am, nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J. J. Lodder) wrote:
Charles Brenner <cbren...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Of course he did.
Didn't you know he fine-tuned the value of pi
to make life in the universe possible?

Jan

George Gamow published an article in Scientific American that quoted
pi as 3.14158265... . This engendered a memorable (in that I still
remember some of it after many decades) letter to the editor which
began

Professor Gamow fie! You've undervalued pi
A hundred-thousandth. Why is pi so oddly shy?

The red-shift -- is it due to tamperers like you?
Where'd relativity be if you diminished c?
Or logarithms if one could vary e?

etc.

.

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